Mary McAleese
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Mary McAleese is an Irish politician and academic who served as the eighth President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary McAleese canonical | 30 |
| Mary McAleese – President of Ireland | 1 |
| McAleese | 1 |
| President Mary McAleese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1058104 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary McAleese Context triple: [Queen’s University Belfast, hasNotableAlumni, Mary McAleese]
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A.
Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson is an Irish lawyer and politician who served as the first female President of Ireland and later as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, renowned globally for her advocacy on human rights and social justice.
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B.
Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams is an Irish republican politician and longtime leader of Sinn Féin who played a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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C.
Albert Reynolds
Albert Reynolds was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach in the early 1990s and played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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D.
Seamus Mallon
Seamus Mallon was a prominent Irish nationalist politician and key architect of the Northern Ireland peace process, serving as deputy leader of the SDLP and the first Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland.
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E.
Robin Swann
Robin Swann is a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist politician best known for serving as Minister of Health in the Northern Ireland Executive, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary McAleese Target entity description: Mary McAleese is an Irish politician and academic who served as the eighth President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011.
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A.
Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson is an Irish lawyer and politician who served as the first female President of Ireland and later as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, renowned globally for her advocacy on human rights and social justice.
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B.
Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams is an Irish republican politician and longtime leader of Sinn Féin who played a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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C.
Albert Reynolds
Albert Reynolds was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach in the early 1990s and played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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D.
Seamus Mallon
Seamus Mallon was a prominent Irish nationalist politician and key architect of the Northern Ireland peace process, serving as deputy leader of the SDLP and the first Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland.
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E.
Robin Swann
Robin Swann is a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist politician best known for serving as Minister of Health in the Northern Ireland Executive, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mary McAleese Description of subject: Mary McAleese is an Irish politician and academic who served as the eighth President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
St Dominic's Grammar School for Girls, Belfast
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hasAlumnaOccupation
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Mary McAleese – President of Ireland
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linked to: Mary McAleese
linked to: Mary McAleese
subject linked to:
Trinity College